Christina Patterson: Care to be a Nurse?

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Columnist Christina Patterson says we should stop making excuses for bad nursing, recalling her own experiences and the reaction she received after she wrote about them.

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Columnist Christina Patterson discusses her own experiences of terrible nursing care.

She asks why we keep making excuses for bad nursing when good care is so important - and maintains that whatever the pressures on them, nurses always have a choice about how they behave.

Producer: Giles Edwards.

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Fri 15 Jul 201117:15

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